A short reign does not spare the masses.

A short reign does not spare the masses.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things shall be yours.

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.

Usually, you can figure out where a person's mistakes came from if you ask them the genesis of their thought process: 'Why did you do it this way?' As opposed to telling them they did it the wrong way. Understanding their thought process will ultimately help you be able to communicate with them and navigate around them.

Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective.

When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.

Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light.

I didn't know that there was such a thing as butter carving. But then, I poked around a little bit. A quick Google search will show you 55,000 images of butter carvings, and they're extraordinary.

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectators mind.

I'm usually put off by performers when they get political.

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

When in doubt win the trick.